Hi there, Yes, yes !!! I am trying to do something similar here in Plymouth England, and I've started by turning my hypothesis of how we help the overall community into a hand-drawn graphic showing the flow of funds/ideas/people through our coworking space from the various sectors (govt, charity/NGO, higher education, and private), and how it flows back out again in the form of new ideas, investment into the community, and new collaboration.
I've got lists of the names of the various entities we have been involved with in all the categories listed above, and now I am trying to collect the data to see if it supports this hypothesis. I'm participating in an open data day with our local government later this week (an effort which we helped them with initially to connect with our local digital community), to find some data geeks to help me see how to gather some of the public data that may already be available, in addition to conducting a survey to see what I can learn from our members, beyond the anecdotal stories I already know. I haven't started the questionnaire yet. Happy to share my graphic and to let you know what I learn from the open data side of things at the end of the week. I'd love to help with questionnaire as well (or see others' questions, and participate in any other efforts. Sabrina On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 10:19:50 PM UTC+1, Aloma Loren wrote: > > Hello fellow coworking leaders, > > I am putting together a coworking impact survey to send to our members in > hopes of collecting some good information to share with the city and other > places to show the positive impacts our coworking space has had on growing > businesses and community. > > Has anyone done one of these and do you have any advice on what questions > to ask and how to ask the questions? > > I'd like to definitely have some financial info (anonymous of course), and > I'd also like to know about job creation. There is a bigger picture that > goes outside of our physical space, like how the restaurants in our area > have been effected by having so many regulars eating lunch and even coming > back to the area for evenings out. I'm not sure how to ask questions about > this, it wouldn't be as black and white as collecting economic data but I'd > like to try. Any advice is welcome. > > Thank you. I'd be happy to share some of the questions I come up with when > I'm done if anyone is interested. > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
